abolish russia earth society has progressed beyond the need for a russia

"This referendum is dead. For the premier to spend taxpayer time and money to resurrect it, would prove what we’ve always known: she’s a separatist." Official statement from the NDP. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

That shape is insane! I’m beginning to think gerrymandering is why American electoral districts don’t have names.

In Quebec you know which parties support and oppose a referendum. It’s been a debate out in the open for decades. In Alberta it comes out of nowhere. The party pushing for a referendum did not run on it. And they turn out to be more than 50% separatists.

Tired: Bsky is Lib propaganda Wired: Bsky is Chinese propaganda Inspired: Bsky is Canadian propaganda

Why Montreal’s Metro Is the Most Beautiful in North America youtu.be/LBwUkoSZdcI Superbe vidéo faite par un Montréalais à l'attention des touristes afin de leur montrer toute la beauté et la diversité des stations de métro à Montréal. #polmtl @stm.info

DC Statehood Now

I think what bothers me about the kind of left-populism that only talks about “taxing the rich” is that it feels completely ignorant about uncurious about other countries as models. Like, you want the social programs of Sweden? Fair. So tell us about the tax system of Sweden.

I found this funny. Two kids biking with dolls in miniature child seats on the back of their bikes.

“On Finch Avenue East in the postwar suburbs of North York and Scarborough, a bus (both express and local) is scheduled to come better than every three minutes during rush hour, every four minutes through the middle of the day, and about every six minutes even at 11 at night.”

I would love it if the US stopped bombing things

For all its issues, this is the appeal of AirBnB honestly. When you want more options than an expensive hotel downtown and a cheap one out by a highway somewhere you don’t actually want to be.

Why is Futurewise always talking about stacked flats? A 🧵 (1/5)

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @ucs.org in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest @urbantruth.bsky.social poster. #UrbanTruth

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Montréal demeure une référence nord-américaine en matière de vélo. Mais entre projets suspendus, budget réduit et pression pour redonner de la place à l’auto, plusieurs signaux inquiètent. 👉 On vous résume la vidéo de Oh The Urbanity! dans notre article : projetmontreal.org/nouvelles/mo...

Dedicated detour signs for cyclists on the REV Saint-Denis. In anticipation of the road being pedestrianized for a week (Montreal Comic Arts Festival).

Big box parking lots are not my favourite places in the world, but this one at least has a bike share station and EV charging.

Canada’s emergency alert system treats “there was a child abduction (and/or custody dispute) 500 km away, here’s the license plate” with the same severity as “take immediate shelter, there’s a tsunami coming and Donald Trump is trying to nuke it”.

Cellphone data shows a decline of 42% in Canadians visiting the United States, higher than the 25% drop found in border crossing estimates. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the biggest decrease (65%). We visited there in 2019.

“The market cannot provide affordable housing.” And yet, have you noticed that some housing markets are much more affordable than others?

“Cities aren’t loud. Cities, when their hockey team is in the playoffs, are loud.”

New cargo bike rental service in Boulder, Colorado!

One thing I find really interesting is that conservative governments in Canada (like in Ontario and Alberta) are less polarized against transit than US Republicans — but *more* polarized (or at least more aggressive) against bike lanes.

one day, this constant, endless, exhausting, humiliating horseshit is just going to stop and it will never start again.

Le Québec : « Okay, au-delà de trois étages, ça prend deux cages d'escaliers. » La Suisse : « Chérie, j'ai bâti un immeuble de vingt-cinq étages avec une cage d'escaliers en Suisse ! » www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/t...

The difference is that the Canada Post mandate explicitly says that it’s supposed to be financially self-sustaining. Maybe that’s unrealistic these days and should be changed? But for the moment it’s not like any other service.

“Typical recent parks offer little seating, little shade, few trees and no reason to linger. There is never a café, too rarely a washroom, rarely a water feature. Playgrounds, sculpture and chin-up bars are thrown together seemingly at random.”

The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation

L’aventure multimodale près de chez soi!

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... What an insane thing to say at this point. What the fuck is going on?

The essay’s argument actually aligns with our research into how to get people to take action for public transit. “Transit fights climate change” isn’t a motivating frame; “ensuring everyone can get around with dignity” is. We still push transit as a climate solution, just with different messaging.

Yesterday, I uploaded a video on why protecting trees requires building dense cities: youtu.be/zneKVi6Rn44

This CBC essay about a family moving from Toronto to Saskatchewan is framed as escaping “busy city life” but most of it is about how cars and gridlock made their lives unbearable www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People who don’t bike anywhere often have virtually zero knowledge of how to do it. What routes exist, which ones are safe, how they connect or go places. Same thing behind the “we have enough bike lanes!” crowd.

Just listened to a podcast where someone randomly commented that if you want to easily kill yourself, you can “just go to Canada”. It’s wild how medically-assisted dying is so prominent in people’s views of Canada.

It’s very good to finally see a major eastern publication highlight the fact that that this movement exists primarily because it’s core members fried their brains on the internet and are now compelled to suicide bomb their own country.

The American convention of referring to politicians with their past titles always sounds funny to be. “President Obama”? He’s no longer president! (Carney’s following it here but it’s not the norm in Canadian politics. People would not typically say “Prime Minister Harper” post-2015.)

Nobody loves their city like people from Chicago. And I can’t blame them! I think Chicago is my favourite city in the US that I’ve visited. (Granted, I’ve never been to New York.)

I use a Mac now for video editing. But I used to love using and tinkering around with Linux. I used it on and off since 2004 or so. I think the world would be better off with more free & open source software.

Thanks @spacing.bsky.social for publishing my article about the need to make completing the 72 km Loop Trail - and other trail gaps across the city - an issue for this October's municipal election. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Cities in Ontario: literally don’t have power to do anything Cities in California: I’m gonna build a neighborhood right on top of a state project corridor

Vancouver’s West End is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in the country. I’d love for everyone who thinks tall buildings ruin neighbourhoods to visit there. Tall buildings sound scary when they’re proposed. But when they already exist, they usually just feel like a normal part of the housing mix.

“Montreal’s long-promised plan to turn downtown’s McGill College Ave. into a large pedestrian square has been postponed for at least two years as the new administration reassesses the project.”

Genuinely conflicted on municipal amalgamation. Political fragmentation seems to encourage NIMBYism and dysfunctional politics in a lot of ways. But local control has also helped cycling and pedestrian infrastructure gaining a foothold in lots of cities.

I hate this so much. Alberta is working on provincial legislation to ban and/or remove bike lanes. Like Doug Ford in Ontario.

Calgary Transit considering different pricing structures, including distance-based fares and different peak vs. off-peak fares.

There’s a bizarre social consensus, somehow strongest among the elites and institutional leaders of the nation, that all this deranged behavior simply amounts to nothing - bluster and chaos sitting atop a fundamental normalcy.

I love how the short census is just -What is your name -How many people in your household -Are you sure that's how many? -Diplomats hiding in your home? -Speak french as a 1st language? -Speak french fluently? -Speak some french? -Learning french? -Planning to learn french? -Spoke but forgot french?

I know this describes a lot of people on here.